BRITISH
HISTORIAN DAVID IRVING was ambushed by
eight Austrian Staatspolizei (Stapo)
officers at gunpoint on November 11, 2005
when visiting Vienna to speak to
university students on Adolf Eichmann,
Joel Brand, and British code-breaking
revelations.

The
arrest warrant had been issued 16 years
earlier, November 8, 1989, at the written
demand (Anzeige) of a Communist-front
body, the Dokumentations-Archiv
des Osterreichischen Widerstands (Document
Center of the Austrian
Resistance),
issued the day before, as court records
revealed. Mr. Irving was charged under
Austria's 1945 "Verbotsgesetz" (Banning
Law) with having uttered illegal opinions
on history at a 1989 talk. On February 20,
2006 at a show trial staged in Austria's
largest criminal courtroom with 200
spectators, he was sentenced to three
years in jail. His lawyers triumphed in
the Court of Appeal and he was released on
Dec 21, 2006 after 400 days in solitary
confinement in Austria's oldest jailhouse.

David
Irving, photographed in Vienna on Nov 11, 2005, two
hours before he was arrested for an "opinion-crime"
committed sixteen years earlier

Nov 8, 1989: After a
communist-inspired riot in Vienna the socialist
government issued an Arrest Warrant against
David Irving at the behest of the
Dokumentationsachiv des österreichischen
Widerstands (i.e., Dr Erika Weinzierl).

Feb 24, 2006: "Irving's
girlfriend is left homeless and bitter" -
The Daily Telegraph's Neil Tweedie skates on
thin ice with a libellous article about Mr
Irving three days after his sentencing, aware
that there is a one-year limitation period on
his ability to proceed against them for libel
(oops! but now he's free)

On Jan 7 the brilliant
journalist Christopher Hitchens (right) on TV
Ontario defended the right of David Irving not
be imprisoned in Austria for his views.
[audio
link or Click
this link and then "Christopher Hitchens" -
each time we post the actual TVO link it is
changed].